MGT252-Tab Flashcards
Marketing
The process by which companies engage customers, build strong customer relationships, and create customer value in order to capture value from customers in return.
Needs
State of felt deprivation
Wants
The form human needs take as they are shaped by culture and individual personality.
Marketing offerings
Some combination of products, services, information, or experiences offered to a market to satisfy a need or want.
Marketing myopia
The mistake of paying more attention to the specific products a company offers than to the benefits and experiences produced by these products.
Exchange
The act of obtaining a desired object from someone by offering something in return.
Marketing management
The art and science of choosing target markets and building profitable relationships with them.
Production concept
The idea that consumers will favor products that are available and highly affordable; therefore, the organization should focus on improving production and distribution efficiency.
Product concept
The idea that consumers will favor products that offer the most quality, performance, and features; therefore, the organization should devote its energy to making continuous product improvements.
Selling concept
The idea that consumers will not buy enough of the firm’s product unless the firm undertakes a large-scale selling and promotion effort.
Marketing concept
A philosophy in which achieving organizational goals depends on knowing the needs and wants of target markets and delivering the desired satisfactions better than competitors do.
Societal marketing concept
The idea that a company’s marketing decisions should consider consumers’ wants, the company’s requirements, consumers’ long-run interests, and society’s long-run interests.
Customer relationship management
The overall process of building and maintaining profitable customer relationships by delivering superior customer value and satisfaction.
Customer-perceived value
The customer’s evaluation of the difference between all the benefits and all the costs of a marketing offer relative to those of competing offers.
Customer satisfaction
The extent to which a product’s perceived performance matches a buyer’s expectations.
Customer-engagement marketing
Making the brand a meaningful part of consumers’ conversations and lives by fostering direct and continuous customer involvement in shaping brand conversations, experiences, and community.
Consumer-generated marketing
Brand exchanges created by consumers themselves, both invited and uninvited, by which consumers are playing an increasing role in shaping their own brand experiences and those of other consumers.
Partner relationship management
Working closely with partners in other company departments and outside the company to jointly bring greater value to customer.
Customer lifetime value
The value of the entire stream of purchases a customer makes over a lifetime of patronage.
Share of customer
The portion of the customer’s purchasing that a company gets in its product categories.
Customer equity
The total combined customer lifetime values of all of the company’s customers.
Strategic planning
The process of developing and maintaining a strategic fit between the organization’s goals and capabilities and its changing marketing opportunities.
Mission statement
statement of the organization’s purpose. What it wants to accomplish in the larger environment.
Business portfolio
The collection of businesses and products that make up the company.
Portfolio analysis
The process by which management evaluates the products and businesses that make up the company.
Growth-share matrix
A portfolio-planning method that evaluates a company’s SBUs in terms of market growth rate and relative market share.
Product/market expansion grid
A portfolio-planning tool for identifying company growth opportunities through market penetration, market development, product development, or diversification.
Market penetration
Company growth by increasing sales of current products to current market segments without changing the product.
Market development
Company growth by identifying and developing new market segments for current company products.
Product development
Company growth by offering modified or new products to current market segments.
Diversification
Company growth through starting up or acquiring businesses outside the company’s current products and markets.
Value chain
The series of internal departments that carry out value-creating activities to design, produce, market, deliver, and support a firm’s products.
Value delivery network
A network composed of the company, suppliers, distributors, and ultimately, customers who partner with each other to improve the performance of the entire system in delivering customer value.
Marketing strategy
The marketing logic by which the company hopes to create customer value and achieve profitable customer relationships.
Market segmentation
Dividing a market into distinct groups of buyers who have different needs, characteristics, or mixes.
Market segment
A group of consumers who respond in a similar way to a given set of marketing efforts.
Market targeting (targeting)
Evaluating each market segment’s attractiveness and selecting one or more segments to serve.
Positioning
Arranging for a product to occupy a clear, distinctive, and desirable place relative to competing products in the minds of target consumers.
Differentiation
Actually differentiating the market offering to create superior customer value.
Marketing mix
The set of tactical marketing tools, product, price, place, and promotion, that the firm blends to produce the response it wants in the target market.
SWOT analysis
An overall evaluation of the company’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.
Marketing implementation
Turning marketing strategies and plans into marketing actions to accomplish strategic marketing objectives.
Marketing control
Setting specific marketing goals, and then measuring and evaluating the results of marketing strategies and plans and taking corrective action to ensure that the objectives are achieved.
Marketing return on investment (marketing ROI)
The net return from a marketing investment divided by the costs of the marketing investment.
Marketing environment
The actors and forces outside marketing that affect marketing management’s ability to build and maintain successful relationships with target customers.
Microenvironment
The actors close to the company that affect its ability to serve its customers. The company, suppliers, marketing intermediaries, customer markets, competitors, and publics.
Macroenvironment
The larger societal forces that affect the microenvironment. The demographic, economic, natural, technological, political, and cultural forces.
Marketing intermediaries
Firms that help the company to promote, sell, and distribute its goods to final buyers.
Public
Any group that has an actual or potential interest in or impact on an organization’s ability to achieve its objectives.
Demography
The study of human populations in terms of size, density, location, age, gender, race, occupation, and other statistics.
Baby boomers
The 9.4 million people born during the years following World War II and lasting until 1965.
Generation X
The 7.2 million people born between 1966 and 1980 in the “bierth dearth” following the baby boom.
Millennials
The 8.6 million children of the baby boomers born between 1981 and 1997.
Economic environment
Economic factors that affect consumer purchasing power and spending patterns.
Natural environment
The physical environment and the natural resources that are needed as inputs by marketers or that are affected by marketing activities.
Environmental sustainability
Developing strategies and practices that create a world economy that the planet can support indefinitely.